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Lakshminara Rajaram, Ph.D.


 Lakshminara Rajaram, Ph.D.
Campus
Tarpon Springs Campus
Location
BB 023
Title
Faculty
Email
Rajaram.Lakshminara@spcollege.edu
Phone
727-712-5242


Welcome to my St. Petersburg College website. Please note that my office location is LY 103.

At the outset, I thank you for visiting the website and take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Lakshminarayan Rajaram.

As of today, January 1, 2024, I started my 25th year of teaching at the St. Petersburg College, Tarpon Springs Campus.

EDUCATION AND PAST POSITIONS:
My graduate education is in theoretical and applied mathematics as well as applied statistics. My Ph.D. degree is in mathematics with concentration being applied statistics. I truly enjoy teaching, and hope to continue teaching for many years to come.

I held the following positions in the pharma industry and the universities where I extensively applied the principles and techniques of clinical statistics to model and analyze the data from the biomedical research and epidemiological studies:

  • Statistician, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, The Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore
  • Biostatistician/Data Manager, Clinical Research Division of TheraTech Inc. (pharmaceutical company), Salt Lake City
  • Data managment associate in the Biometric Division of Baker Norton Pharmaceuticals (Ivax Corporation), Miami
  • Biostatistician, Institute of Aging and Epidemiology/Biostatistics Department, College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, Tampa
  • Consulting Data Manager/Biostatistician, Lawton Rhea Chiles Center for Healthy Mothers and Babies, University of South Florida, Tampa
  • Assistant Professor Adjunct, Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences, and Pathology & Cell Biology,
    Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Florida.
  • Affiliate Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, University of South Florida.
  • Adjunct Faculty, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Florida.
  • Prometeo Scholar and Facultad de Ciencias del Ecuador, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador.

EXPERIENCE

My experience includes teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics and mathematics, mathematical modeling, pharmacokinetics and bioequivalence, and statistical evaluation of the clinical data from multi-center clinical trials and epidemiological studies.

STATISTICAL ADVISORY MEMBER OF PHD COMMITTEES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA

I served (2009 - 2019) as a statistical advisory member of the Ph.D. committee in the Departments of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Global Health, and Civil & Environmental Engineering. 

INTERNATIONAL TEACHING
During my time off from St. Petersburg College, I travel abroad and present workshops, presentions and lectures in conferences as well as short courses in such diverse areas as:

• Bioethics and its impact on global clinical research
• Categorical Data Analysis, Mixed-Models, Logistic Regression, Multivariate Analysis, Clinical Epidemiology and Survival Analysis
• Clinical research which includes clinical biostatistics and the design of  the clinical databases
• Computational Methods for Applied Statistics using SAS and R
• Computer applications for public health researchers using a statistical analysis software (SAS)
• Drug discovery and development process
• Principles of statistics and mathematics in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and bioequivalence
• Research methodologies in biomedicine and medical informatics

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
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To know more about my research publications, please click on the following link:
www.researchgate.net/profile/Lakshminarayan_Rajaram

As a clinical biostatistician, I have been doing collaborative research/consulting with scientific researchers, physicians and doctoral students in engineering and public health, leading to publications in the following journals of:

• Age and Ageing
• Applied Sciences in Environment Sanitation
• Australasian Journal of Ageing
• Biomedical Engineering: Recent Developments
• Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
• Critical Illness and Injury Science
• Gerontology: Social Sciences
• Global Infectious Diseases
• Gynecologic Oncology
• Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)
• Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal Medicine
• Medical and Care Compunetics - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics
• Neurobiology of Aging
• Neurology
• Patient Education and Counseling
• SLEEP
• Statistical Theory and Applications
• Stochastic Analysis and Applications
• The Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
• Urology

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
Global Advisory Board: The Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, Shock, Synergizing Basic Science, Clinical Medicine & Global Health.